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Changing our understanding of health

The concept of health holds different meanings for different people and groups. This change is no more evident than in Western society today, when notions of health and health promotion are being challenged and expanded in new ways...

Sep 21,2017
Absenteeism in nursing: A longituinal study

Absence from work is a costly and disruptive problem for any organisation. The cost of absenteeism in Australia has been put at 1,8 million hours per day or $1400 million annually...

Sep 21,2017
Airports on water

River deltas are difficult places for map makers. The river builds them up, the sea wears them down; their outlines are always changing. The changes in China's Pearl River delta, however, are more dramatic than these natural fluctuations...

Sep 21,2017
Children's thinking

One of the most eminent of psychologists, Clark Hull , claimed that the essence of reasoning lies in the putting together of two 'behaviour segments' in some novel way, never actually performed before, so as to reach a goal. Two followers of Clark Hull, Howard and Tracey Kendler, devised a test for ..

Sep 21,2017
The language barrier

The discovery that language can be a barrier to communication is quickly made by all who travel, study, govern or sell. Whether the activity is tourism, research, government, policing, business, or data dissemination, the lack of a common language can severely impede progress or can halt it a..

Sep 21,2017
Keyless Society

Students who want to enter the University of Montreal's Athletic Complex need more than just a conventional ID card - their identities must be authenticated by an electronic hand scanner. In some California housing estates, a key alone is insufficient to get someone in the door; his or her voice pri..

Sep 21,2017
Green Wave Washes Over Mainstream Shopping

Research in Britain has shown that green consumers' continue to flourish as a significant group amongst shoppers. This suggests that politicians who claim environmentalism is yesterday's issue may be seriously misjudging the public mood...

Sep 21,2017
Moles happy as homes go underground

The first anybody knew about Dutchman Frank Siegmunds and his family was when workmen tramping through a field found a narrow steel chimney protruding through the grass. Closer inspection revealed a chink of sky-light window among the thistles, and when amazed investigators moved down the side of the..

Sep 21,2017
Right and left-handedness in humans

Why do humans, virtually alone among all animal species, display a distinct left or right-handedness? Not even our closest relatives among the apes possess such decided lateral asymmetry, as psychologists call it. Yet about 90 per cent of every human population that has ever lived appears to have bee..

Sep 21,2017
Tourism

Tourism, holidaymaking and travel are these days more significant social phenomena than most commentators have considered. On the face of it there could not be a more trivial subject for a book...

Sep 21,2017

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